Agenor

Agenor (/əˈdʒiːnɔːr/; Greek: Ἀγήνωρ; English translation: 'heroic, manly') was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre.Herodotus estimates that Agenor lived sometime before the year 2000 BC.

Genealogy

According to Apollodorus, Agenor was born in Memphis of Egypt to Poseidon and Libya and he had a twin brother named Belus. Belus remained in Egypt and reigned over Egypt, while Agenor departed to Phoenicia and reigned there. According to other sources, he was the son of Belus and Achiroe.

Sources differ also as to Agenor's children; he is sometimes said to have been the father of Cadmus, Europa, Cilix, Phoenix, and Thasus. Some sources state that Phoenix was Agenor's brother (and Belus's son); and it was Phoenix who was the father of these individuals. Agenor's wife is variously given as Telephassa, Argiope, Antiope (daughter of Belus), Cassiopeia, Epimedusa, and Tyro, with the latter giving her name to the city of Tyre. According to Pherecydes, Agenor's first wife was Damno, daughter of Belus, who bore him Phoenix and two otherwise unknown daughters, Isaia and Melia, who married Aegyptus and Danaus respectively; Agenor then fathered Cadmus with Argiope, daughter of Neilus.

Agenor (son of Pleuron)

In Greek mythology, Agenor (Greek: Ἀγήνωρ) was a son of Pleuron and Xanthippe, and grandson of Aetolus.Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, became by him the mother of Porthaon and Demonice. According to Pausanias, Thestius, the father of Leda, is likewise a son of this Agenor.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

Agenor (disambiguation)

Agenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ) is the name of a number of individuals in Greek mythology and history:

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